GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition: specs and benchmarks
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition sales 25 October 2008. This is a desktop graphics card based on a Tesla architecture and made with 55 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 512 MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 1.58 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 25.34 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via MXM-II interface. No additional power connector is required, and power consumption is at 23 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Tesla (2006−2010) | |
| GPU code name | G96C | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 25 October 2008 (15 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 32 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Core clock speed | 500 MHz | of 2610 MHz (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Number of transistors | 314 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 55 nm | of 4 nm (H100 PCIe) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 23 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 8.000 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point performance | 0.08 gflops | of 96.77 (GeForce RTX TITAN Ada) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | MXM-II | |
| Width | MXM Module |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR3 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 512 MB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 1584 MHz | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
| Memory bandwidth | 25.34 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | No outputs |
API compatibility
APIs supported by GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 11.1 (10_0) | |
| Shader Model | 4.0 | |
| OpenGL | 3.3 | of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile) |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | |
| Vulkan | N/A | |
| CUDA | 1.1 |
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition is Radeon HD 8210E.
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